Event Details

A Bay Area Film Mixer

We are SOLD OUT -- no more tickets can be released, but there is a WAITING LIST.

"Meet & Greet" with drinks, a roving photographer, live music &

your reels.

This is a casual event, so bring your talented self and the best explanation of your praise-worthy passions to our spacious new location, yetiZen, in the South of Market “SOMA” district of downtown San Francisco.

We will be reviewing one (1) submission only per Applicant for demo reels and will showcase a limited number of them each of our Mixers, beginning after this event. Submit the link to your professional reel,to info@cruxjinxpictures.com for consideration no later than Thursday, February 28, 3013 by Midnight (Pacific Time).

Visit this site before the night of the event for updates to our program.

You’ll be glad (we hope almost smug!) you energized and enlarged your network at our event!

yetiZen Innovation Space | 20,000 square feet of a vibrant games community center in the heart of San Francisco
540 Howard St San Francisco,
CA 94105

Friday, January 18, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PST)

Organizer

Marcus Sams

Marcus Sams is a professionally working actor / teaching artist in the Bay Area. He is represented by MDT Talent in San Francisco and performs in film, commercials, and corporate industrials. Sams received his B.A. in Theatre Arts along with a Business Administration minor from CSU, Chico, studied Improv at the Lila Theatre in San Francisco, and has been trained by some of the most influential improv teachers of our time including David Razowsky, Susan Messing, Joe Bill and Mark Sutton to list a few.

In the Improv world, Sams performs regularly with Leela’s Armando Company, Blair N’ Sams and in Shades of Grey. Shades of Grey has performed in over a dozen improv festivals across the country including: Gainesville Improv Festival 2011, San Francisco Improv Festival 2011, 2012, 2013, & 2014, The California Improv Festival 2014, Improvaganza (Hawaii Festival of Improv) 2014, and the San Diego Improv Festival 2015. Shades of Grey was also accepted into Philadelphia's Duofest in 2014 but could not attend.

Sams has produced improv shows and jams in San Francisco since 2005 and has produced/co-hosted the Improv Jam night for the San Francisco Improv Festival for the past 3 years. He has taught for multiple institutions in the city and as of 2014, opened his own improv classes. Currently he teaches for Leela, Improv w/Marcus, improv festivals, and select theatres and schools across the nation.

He was also a member of the critically acclaimed improv group, Oui Be Negroes, where he performed at improv festivals around the country and in the San Francisco Improv Festival three times. Sams directed and produced the monthly improv jam/show, Temenos and ImprovLUV for the Lila Theatre/Leela as well as performed in over 30 shows. In college he directed the CSU, Chico’s improv ensemble, Wandering Minds.

He believes that improv is theatre and that it can have all the cathartic elements of scripted theatre when commitment to craft is pursued vigorously. He enjoys innovating improv by creating new formats and aggressively integrating technology into the art form to create seamless and visually amazing improvised shows.

In the film world, Sams is an owner of Crux Jinx Productions and is currently producing and acting in a feature film entitled, Lost in the Sun, due out in summer 2015. In the past he played the lead in a Comedy Central pilot where he was the PR Manager to a has-been Christian rock group entitled Honest to Goodness. He has played the role of Tony in an improvised web series called Tragedy Club and worked on Nobody’s laughing; a hilarious mockumentary of a clown’s coming out. He has been seen in Unflinching Triumph: The Phillip Rockhammer Story, which was hailed by The Wall Street Journal, as “one of the top five of what to watch on the web”, and has done dramatic work in the film Gangsters Guilt that examines cycle of violence that plagues the streets of America. Sams also worked as the comedic news anchor/writer for the Variety Society, a San Francisco based late night talk show.

Along with pursuing his own opportunities, Sams thrives off of giving opportunities to those around him. In this vain, he is also the co-founder of the Bay Area Film Mixer. This mixer was designed to bring the independent film market of the Bay Area closer together. The hope is that by bringing the community closer, they have a better chance of getting their work out there, meeting the right people to hire for jobs, and to inspire each other to help raise the bar of quality. This mixer is open to all filmmakers and has already lead to some great gigs for attendees.